Food Crush - Meals for one

It's better to be single on Valentine's Day,
from a food perspective, says Jennifer George

13th February 2015

'Guaranteed to make your
breath funky and your tummy happy..'

Forget presents, family time and boozing, special events are
always defined for me by the food: Birthday = cake, Easter =
chocolate, Christmas = roast, and so on. I salivate about the
forthcoming feast for days before, making sure my stretchiest
trousers are washed and ready for action.

Valentine's Day doesn't fill me with such excitement.
Heart-shaped chocolates taste of plastic, and I resent having to
book into a restaurant four months in advance, and to pay four
times the normal price for the privilege of having a grade-four
violinist looming over me while I eat.

Being single on Valentine's Day is actually better, from a food
perspective. You can sit in front of the TV and eat what you want
without having to worry about garlic breath, bloating, or the
violinist. And you can do all this without even picking up a
saucepan because, my friends, in our age of YouPorn and social
isolation, the depressing-sounding 'microwave meals for one' are
anything but.